Timber (Twig) how to call wordpress functions

Noel Schenk picture Noel Schenk · Oct 5, 2017 · Viewed 10.7k times · Source

In Timber is this function

{{post}}

where you get things like

{{post.post_title}}

but there are other functions in WordPress like

get_the_permalink();

which are not accessible from post.get_the_permalink or post.get_permalink

these are the variables i can access

  • ID
  • post_author
  • post_date
  • post_date_gmt
  • post_content
  • post_title
  • post_excerpt
  • post_status
  • comment_status
  • ping_status
  • post_password
  • post_name
  • to_ping
  • pinged
  • post_modified
  • post_modified_gmt
  • post_content_filtered
  • post_parent
  • guid
  • menu_order
  • post_type
  • post_mime_type
  • comment_count
  • filter

As this Timber documentation describes there are actions [Timber Doc] but you would have to define each function in the functions.php file ... which means i would have to create each already existing function from php and "redirect" it to the wordpress function. Then bind it to Twig.

Also there was a way as you can see here which is now deprecated

Answer

Noel Schenk picture Noel Schenk · Oct 6, 2017

You can call any function by using for example

{{ function('get_permalink', post.ID) }}

more infos: https://timber.github.io/docs/guides/functions/